Category: General News

Warrant held off the late close of Red Run by a neck to win Wednesday’s $175,000 Isaac Murphy Marathon S. at Churchill Downs. The victory was the third career stakes win for the 5-year-old son of Constitution, and also made him racing’s newest millionaire with $1,058,893 in career earnings. The win in Wednesday’s 1 ½-mile […]

Misty Mauve collected her first stakes win in Saturday’s $100,000 Dahlia S. at Laurel Park, pulling clear in the final furlong to take the one-mile race by 2 ¼-lengths. The 4-year-old Paynter filly was making her stakes debut following an April 7 win over the same track and distance as the Dahlia. She broke well […]

Future WinStar stallion Country Grammer, Thoroughbred racing’s leading active money earner with a bankroll of $11.2 million, dominated five rivals in winning the $200,000 San Antonio S. (G2) at Santa Anita on Monday, Dec. 26. Ridden by Frankie Dettori, Country Grammer defeated Stilleto Boy by 4 ½ lengths in the rousing win. Owned by Commonwealth […]

First-Crop sire Good Samaritan was represented by his 12th winner Saturday at Hawthorne when Coffee Caliente was a 1 ½-length maiden special weight winner at six furlongs (WATCH RACE). The bay 2-year-old was already stakes-placed from his prior start in the Shakopee Juvenile and was a handy winner on Saturday. After taking the lead in […]

WinStar Farm has set 2023 stud fees for its stallion roster, headed by Constitution who will stand for $110,000 S&N and Speightstown who will stand for $80,000 S&N for the upcoming breeding season. The roster will be bolstered further by new arrivals Life Is Good, a multiple Grade 1 winner who will stand for $100,000 […]

WinStar Farm has announced the hiring of Ben Hanley as the newest member of its Stallion Season Sales team. With a degree in equine science from the University of Kentucky and a degree from the Irish National Stud course, Hanley begins his new position following stints with Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott in Saratoga, […]

First-Crop sire Good Samaritan’s latest winner came in front-running fashion Aug. 31 at Delaware Park when Secret Angel scored by two lengths in a one-mile maiden race for 2-year-old fillies. Secret Angel, who was making her second lifetime start and first around two turns, took the lead right away from her inside post. April Luck […]

I Can Run gave Tourist his second stakes winner in the past six days on Sunday when the 3-year-old filly captured the $100,000 Eleven North H. at Monmouth Park. I Can Run was making her stakes debut in the six-furlong Eleven North. Breaking from post 7 she was three-wide while several lengths off the pace […]

Few stallions in the world have attained the heights of WinStar Farm’s remarkable More Than Ready. A Champion Sire in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres and a world-renowned stallion who has made an indelible mark on the breed, More Than Ready was euthanized this morning due to the cumulative effects of old age, the […]

Andiano a Firenze cruised to a 5 ½-length win in Friday’s $200,000 Funny Cide S. at Saratoga to give the well-related 2-year-old Speightstown colt his first stakes win. The winner, who was the odds-on favorite in the 6 ½-furlong race, is a half-brother to $2.8 million earner Firenze Fire. Andiamo a Firenze was widest of […]